parliamentary law

1. 1.

   a body of rules followed by an assembly

   Synonymsorderrules of orderparliamentary procedure

   Broaderrule

   Narrowerinterpellationstanding orderclosurepoint of orderprevious questionRobert's Rules of Order

Questions about parliamentary law

What does parliamentary law mean?

parliamentary law means "a body of rules followed by an assembly".

What is another word for parliamentary law?

Close synonyms include order, rules of order, parliamentary procedure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parliamentary law a common word?

parliamentary law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.